Piku - by Shoojit Sircar

     The latest one that I liked very much is Shoojit Sircar's Piku. It has hit the screens this Friday and the word of mouth has already increased the curiosity of those who have not seen it.

     Flaunting the cast of the film-stars who can actually perform wonderfully, Piku takes us through a very feel good and relaxed Journey of our mental state. Ironically, the journey of the characters in the film, which is the journey of a relation between the father - Bhashkor Banjerjee (Amitabh Bachchan) and the daughter - Piku (Deepika Padukone), is very quirky, quarrelsome and cranky. However, that is magic of Piku; in spite of this, you are quite contend by the end of the film.

     Bhashkor Banerjee is 70 and a single father of the 30 year Piku, both of them staying in Delhi with a servant to take care of Bhashkor in Piku's absence. Bhashkor is old and suffering through the serious illness of over thinking about the constipation and relating almost every reason of happiness of life with his motion. The critical characterisation is seen in glimpses in his daughter as well and they both make a superb father-daughter pair. Piku takes too much of care of her ailing (well, sort of) father and is always there for him, no matter what, leaving all the best moments of her life behind her. For some reason they need to go to their hometown Kolkata, and an owner of a car renting company is stuck between this duo, while driving them to their destination. The presence of this third person changes some very small things for everyone for good.

     A story cannot be more simple. The dialogues are very natural and yet too catchy to be claimed as natural. It is very well written for screen. They have very well managed the balance between, creating a scene and capturing a moment. this is what makes Piku distinctly gripping.

     It is shot very well by Kamaljeet Negi. It does not have the budget of 90 crores to make audience give something different. It is just capturing into the camera the different aspects of same moments that we normally live.

     And to make the audience feel that people we are watching on the screen are the PEOPLE like you and me, the actors had the toughest job to do. The leading lady had to do much more than just looking good and distracting the viewers attention from her face to her cleavage, or rather what actresses are used for these days. Deepika has done the perfect job. She looks naturally beautiful. She looks like someone who you see everyday around you. She has acted blissfully and her presence is refreshingly tempting. Amitah Bachchan has played the father and he is the ultimate BAAP of the screen. The guy has lived the character yet again. And the king of natural performances Irrfan Khan, he looks so simple and so dashingly handsome and yet 100% like a person you meet daily and feel nothing different about those kind.

     The whole writing and the capturing of the film was given all the justice by these actors.

Shoojit Sircar, the person who did Vicky Donor and then a 180 degrees flipped genre, Madras Cafe and again a very delightful Piku, is a man with multiple talent and variety of mindsets within himself. He too, did not fall short in anything, with everyone giving their best to this project.

     Though the first 15 minutes irritate you, which I am sure is kept deliberately by the makers, the rest of 108 minutes entertain you to the core.

     The End is the best part where we see Deepika playing Badminton. That scene is the required full-stop to the long sentence which you enjoy reading throughout the film.

     My verdict is 8.9/10.

Awesome work of art Team Piku.